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16 Nov 2012 Occupy Wallstreet Puppets on Elections Night 2012

The latest work of the Occupy Wallstreet Puppet Guild is a set of giant puppets made in the likeness of U.S. President Barack Obama, former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Rich "Uncle" Pennybags, the round-headed "Monopoly...

02 Nov 2012 Million Puppet March

The puppets are coming to Washington. Perhaps not a million of them, but even so The Million Puppet March should be an impressive gathering of fur, fleece, and people who love puppets in support of public broadcasting in the United...

01 Nov 2012 Harper Puppet Pals

Harper Puppet Pals is the first episode of a new Canadian political web series. It's part of the Satire Project, a proposed hub for Canadian political...

07 Oct 2012 Bird Bird on SNL's Weekend Update

You may have heard a little something in the news over the past few days about U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Big Bird. Well, last night for the first time since the whole bruh ha ha started we finally got a chance to hear from everyone's favourite feathered...

25 Aug 2012 Simon from the Canadian puppet web series Felt Up

I get a huge number of submissions for PuppetVision and when I'm especially busy I'm usually especially behind on reviewing them. Thus, I occasionally try to clear the backlog by compiling a Weekend Puppet Round-Up and share a bunch of great things with you all at...

13 Feb 2012 French Puppets Spark Diplimatic Protest

There’s a bit of spat at the moment between Spain and France and it seems that a French puppet show is to blame. The fuss started with an episode of Les Guignols de l’info – a sort of French version of Spitting Image – that featured puppets of disgraced cyclist Alberto Contador singing about blood doping...

28 Dec 2011 2011, Buh-Bye!

The year is drawing to a close and that means it's time for JibJab's annual year-end salute to the year that just...

07 Nov 2011 Muppets on the cover of Wired Magazine

Apologies for a lack of recent updates; as so often is the case, life and work conspired to keep me preoccupied last week, but here's a look at what was happening while I wasn't...

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